{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["26(6)"],"submitter":["Saitovitch A"],"funding":["Fondation Orange","AP-HP PHRC","Fondation de France","Paris Institute of Translational Neuroscience","Investissements d'avenir"],"pubmed_abstract":["Processing eye-gaze information is a key step to human social interaction. Neuroimaging studies have shown that superior temporal sulcus (STS) is highly implicated in eye-gaze perception. In autism, a lack of preference for the eyes, as well as anatomo-functional abnormalities within the STS, has been described. To date, there are no experimental data in humans showing whether it is possible to interfere with eye-gaze processing by modulating STS neural activity. Here, we measured eye-gaze perception before and after inhibitory transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) applied over the posterior STS (pSTS) in young healthy volunteers. Eye-gaze processing, namely overt orienting toward the eyes, was measured using eye tracking during passive visualization of social movies. Inhibition of the r"],"journal":["Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991)"],"pagination":["2823-31"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC4869819"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["Tuning Eye-Gaze Perception by Transitory STS Inhibition."],"pmcid":["PMC4869819"],"pubmed_authors":["Saitovitch A","Popa T","Rechtman E","Brunelle F","Grevent D","Zilbovicius M","Meunier S","Calmon R","Samson Y","Boddaert N","Lemaitre H","Lamy JC"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Tuning Eye-Gaze Perception by Transitory STS Inhibition.","description":"Processing eye-gaze information is a key step to human social interaction. Neuroimaging studies have shown that superior temporal sulcus (STS) is highly implicated in eye-gaze perception. In autism, a lack of preference for the eyes, as well as anatomo-functional abnormalities within the STS, has been described. To date, there are no experimental data in humans showing whether it is possible to interfere with eye-gaze processing by modulating STS neural activity. Here, we measured eye-gaze perception before and after inhibitory transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) applied over the posterior STS (pSTS) in young healthy volunteers. Eye-gaze processing, namely overt orienting toward the eyes, was measured using eye tracking during passive visualization of social movies. Inhibition of the r","dates":{"release":"2016-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2016 Jun","modification":"2025-04-04T09:36:32.979Z","creation":"2019-03-27T02:13:53Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC4869819","cross_references":{"pubmed":["26946130"],"doi":["10.1093/cercor/bhw045"]}}